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No, that wasn’t true

Callie, the older, brash one with the inappropriate sweatpants, said that without training, I was a natural witch It was Dizzy, her husband, who said I was a hborhood so He liked to deliver horrible neith a smile

Thankfully, by that point, the third an, had plied me with so much whiskey that I could barely sit on my stool It made all the news bearable

Until I woke up, of course, and proceeded to get out of there as fast as I could

I’d decided to go back toBecause in all honesty, if that aching hole was erous (at least in my hands), I was better off bored but safe Any idiot could tell you that

So here I was, in a joba feeble canvas tent at a e outside of Seattle As soon as the blasted thing would behave and stand up straight, I could set up my usual wares: tarot cards, colorful stones, and fake crystal ball If people wanted badly told and often wrong fortunetelling, I was open for business on an ever-changing schedule during often weird and annoying hter as I clipped the canvas in place My stall up, I took the flis

"Looks like rain," Geraldine said as she went about clicking her poles into each other, ot most of the choosey clientele She didn’t look the part of a road-weary and uninterested gypsy out of the ether She looked like a ht into the occult, but would be an exuberant and fun distraction nonetheless The fact that her chairs wouldn’t buckle under their butts was probably another advantage

I’d follow that business model if I had the money to spare As it was, after the New Orleans monetary setback, I’d decided to save every last penny in an atteaze

I draped a tablecloth over the card table, set up a chair, and slowed down This was the most important part of my setup, and why I showed up earlier than most of the other vendors What here on the table s weren’t placed just so, I’d draw a blank the ht, it was easier for ht like to hear

"I doubt we’ll rabbed newish, unstained fabric to drape over her tentlike setup "Allanced at the heavy Washington sky, thick and gray Clouds shifted while drifting, churning up darker patches in the sky Electric energy gave the soft breeze a positive charge as it rolled by with a slight chill Green trees and foliage swayed and nodded around the dirt ay

I stilled in the y of orated ainst the supercharged ath ot mocked I couldn’t help but stand there withto the nature around ht In school, I’d been taunted and bullied for being weird The bullies who bothered e looks and crooked s y, torn down my arms, and bowed s a person could do, like turn a bunch of wo back toatfor an answer

"Sorry, as that?" I asked, figuring she’d asked a question while I was in my mini-trance